Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curator:
Fred Licht.

Artist:
Afro, Edmondo Bacci, Alberto Burri, Fabrizio Clerici, William Congdon, Ludovico De Luigi, Piero Dorazio Lucio Fontana, Mario Merz, Luciano Minguzzi, Mirko, Gastone Novelli, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Armando Pizzicato, Emilio Vedova, Giuseppe Santomaso, Tancredi Parmeggiani.

Exhibition description:
Arte italiana del dopoguerra alla Collezione Peggy Guggenheim offered a varied panorama of the artworks that Peggy Guggenheim collected during this particular period of Italian history. During the thirty years that Peggy Guggenheim lived in Venice, she became very interested in a group of Venetian artists that were gaining recognition due to the expressive quality of their work. In the 1950s, continuing in the mode of patronage that she had begun in New York the decade before, Peggy acquired and collected artworks by Vedova, Bacci, Santomaso, Pizzinato, Tancredi and other artists presented in this exhibition. The display was completed with artworks that were either donated to the institution after Peggy Guggenheim died or that were requested on temporary loan. This exhibition also commemorated the tenth anniversary of Giuseppe Santomaso’s death (May 24, 1990), and the ninetieth birthday of Armando Pizzinato (October 7, 2000).

Catalogue:
No catalogue.